Craig, Harold Farlow
Administering a Conversion to Electronic Accounting -- a case studyPublisher: harvard University Business school publication, Riverside Press, MA 1955; 224 pages. Good+ overall, light and dark green cardstock covers, 6x9 size; rubbing along the backstrip, light edgewear, a few pages with corners creased as bookmarks. Ex-corporate library rubberstamp on endpage, gluestains inside rear cover from pocket. BInding is secure and sound, pages cleanIncludes bifold printed Abstract for the book, laid-in loosely in front. 'Presents a research study of the administration of change in a large, modern office (circa 1955).. at the specific level, it is a study of the particular administrative problems (as distinct from the technical problems) of introducing electornic office equipment into a large office that had traditionally handled its work primarily with manual methods. At a more general level, it is a study of the administrative process of introducing a major technological change while at the same time maintaining some continuity within an established work group...' (from the Foreword) Includes -- The Commercial Department Before and After conversion - the home office formal organization, IBM equipment etc; The Commercial Department in 1950 before Conversion - the functions of the department, accounting and recording, pressures on the department, costs; the jobs of managers; the jobs of clerks; changes in the jobs of clerks, company personnel, employee attitude, turnover, etc; Administrative Problems; The Commercial Department in 1953 after Conversion, incl. some things that had not been changed during conversion; Administrative Behavior during Conversion - the development of plans for conversion; Organization and management changes during conversion; Departmental Relations during Conversion; Personnel Administration during conversion; Observations and Conclusions, more.

Lewis, Sinclair (Harry Sinclair), 1885-1951. Schorer, Mark.
Babbitt. With an Afterword by Mark Schorer.Publisher: New American Library [1964]. A Signet Classic. CT91. First pub. 1922. "Here are all the clichés of our commercial culture, the rasping rhetoric of American business enterprise at its crudest middle-class level. This is the world of George F. Babbitt." This printing has a brief Selected Bibliography following the Afterword by Mark Schorer, the definitive biographer of Lewis. 327, [1] p., 18 cm.; paper; ink owner name; VG. 35270.

Nader, Ralph & William Taylor (eds.)
The Big Boys: Power and Position in American BusinessPublisher: NY: Pantheon, 1986. Hard bound, first edition. Previous owner stamp else very good in very good, price-clipped dust jacket. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Lewis, Michael
The New New Thing, a Silicon Valley storyPublisher: WW Norton, NY 2000, stated first edition; 268 pages. Very Good overall, hardcover in silver-gray dustjacket; ex-library pocket at rear, some tape marks on jacket, some rubbing to jacket. The binding is sound, the pages clean

Story of Jim Clark, Netscape, his boat Hyperion, company Healtheon, Silicon Valley in the 1990's. Includes, The Boat that Built Netscape; The Accelerated Grimace; The Past in a box; Disorganization Man; Inventing Jim Clark; The Home ofthe Future; New New Money; The Turning Point; The New New Thing; more